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Slinking vs Furtive - What's the difference?

slinking | furtive |

As a verb slinking

is .

As a noun slinking

is the act of one who slinks.

As an adjective furtive is

stealthy.

slinking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who slinks.
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • at midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.

    Anagrams

    *

    furtive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stealthy
  • Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
    • But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

    Synonyms

    * (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

    Derived terms

    * furtively * furtiveness